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Chapter 1 and 2 Blown to Bits StudyBit - correct answer ✔A bit is short for binary digit, the smallest unit of
information in a computer.
Blacklist - correct answer ✔A generic term for a list of email addresses, IP
addresses, and users that are prohibited from using a service.
Character - correct answer ✔Any symbol that requires one byte of storage.
Cyberspace - correct answer ✔A place where data transfers occur.
Data center - correct answer ✔A place where data (bits) are stored.
Data - correct answer ✔Information, on the internet it can be referred to as
bits.
Data Network - correct answer ✔A way for users on the internet to traffic and
receive data.
Disk Drive - correct answer ✔A system on a computer that allows it to read
the data on a disk.
Intellectual Property - correct answer ✔The property or work that one has
rights to, and can copyright, those that break copy it identically can face
consequences.
, Moore's Law - correct answer ✔A law stating that the density of integrated
circuits will double every couple years, and will continue to do so over a long
period of time, but in 2001 proved to be false as integrated circuits stopped
becoming much faster and has hardly improved on speed at all.
Network Processor - correct answer ✔An integrated circuit that has
processors which allow a computer to run different operations at different
speeds, the more it can run, the faster it is.
Social Networking - correct answer ✔Sites or applications made for the use
of other users interacting with each other.
Whitelist - correct answer ✔A generic term for a list of email addresses, IP
addresses, and users that are specifically allowed to use a service.
Chapter 1 Quick Summary - correct answer ✔Everything in the modern
world today is tied to technology in one way or another, and everything that is
on the internet will stay on the internet.
Chapter 1 Ideas presented - correct answer ✔1. Information in a computer is
malleable because it consists of ones and zeros.
2. Computers rarely or never mess up.
3. Information that can not be found online may seem not to exist entirely.
4. The faster an idea is processed in a computer, the faster it can become a
reality.
5. Exponential growth tends to go unnoticed until it is too late.
6. Information and data of every sort is never going to be fully erased unless
there is a policy to get rid of it.
7. Thanks to the internet, the news and information can be gathered about an
event in our own city before we even know what is going on.
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